Crude oil production

Oil production, which is distributed over 6 production sites, covers around 10% of the country's needs (0.8 Mt in 2014). Russia is the main oil supplier (89% in 2014, 81% in 2015), followed by Iraq (10% in 2014 and 19% in 2015).

Natural gas consumption

Between 2000 and 2005 gas consumption grew very rapidly, at a rate of 4.5%/year. It has been on a downward trend ever since (-41% between 2005 and 2014). According to preliminary estimates, gas consumption grew by 5.5% in 2015, to 9.3 bcm.

Coal consumption

Coal and lignite consumption halved between 1990 and 2014, from 21 Mt to 10 Mt, in line with the demand from power plants (-1.5%/year), as most of the coal and lignite is used in the power sector (88% in 2014), with the bulk being lignite (over 90%).

Graph: COAL CONSUMPTION (Mt)

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Coal and lignite domestic consumption

Power consumption

Electricity consumption increased rapidly between 2000 and 2004 (+2.4%/year), but has been hovering between 34 and 36 TWh since then (37 TWh in 2014). According to preliminary statistics, it grew by 3% in 2015.

The share of the industrial sector in this electricity consumption is rather...

Renewable in % electricity production

According to the EU Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, the national target is to increase the share of renewables in the country's final energy consumption to 13% by 2020. This target was raised to 14.65% by 2020 following the adoption of Hungary's National...